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India Today
22-07-2025
- India Today
Dharmasthala mass burial case: Timeline of key events, how investigation unfolded
Allegations of mass burials, sexual violence, and cover-ups spanning over a decade and a half have brought intense scrutiny to the temple town of Dharmasthala in Karnataka. The case came to light after a former sanitation worker came forward, claiming he had been coerced to bury and cremate the bodies of women and minors, many of them allegedly showing signs of assault, between 1998 and his complaint, an FIR was filed, witness protection was granted, and skeletal remains were presented in court. Subsequent public outrage, legal interventions, and further allegations, including a complaint about a woman's disappearance in 2003, culminated in the formation of the is a chronology of key developments in the case:June 22Advocates Ojaswi Gowda and Sachin Deshpande met a former sanitation worker, who claimed he could identify gravesites in Dharmasthala and expressed willingness to assist in uncovering the alleged 27A delegation of Bengaluru-based lawyers approached the Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police, requesting a formal inquiry into claims of mass 3The former sanitation worker submitted a written complaint to the Superintendent of Police. He included photographic evidence and alleged that he had been forced to bury the bodies of women and minors over a 16-year 4The Dharmasthala police registered an FIR under Section 211(a) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), based on the 10The whistleblower was granted protection under the Witness Protection 11 (Morning)The complainant appeared before a Belthangady court and submitted skeletal remains he claimed to have exhumed from one of the 11 (Evening)Advocate Pavan Deshpande, counsel for the complainant, issued a formal statement to the media. He stressed the seriousness of the allegations, affirmed the authenticity of the remains, and underscored the necessity of an independent 13The police booked a YouTuber, Sameer MD, for allegedly spreading false information about the case through an AI-generated 14The Chairperson of the State Women's Commission, Nagalakshmi Chowdary, wrote to the Chief Minister, urging the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the suspicious 15A woman from Bengaluru filed a complaint stating that her daughter, an MBBS student, disappeared in 2003 after visiting Dharmasthala. Activists renewed their demand for judicial oversight and SIT 16A group of advocates filed a petition alleging that confidential statements by the whistleblower had been leaked to a YouTuber, raising concerns about witness safety and the impartiality of the 17The District In-charge Minister of Dakshina Kannada, Dinesh Gundu Rao, assured the public that the investigation would be conducted transparently and that no individual would be 18Chief Minister Siddaramaiah publicly addressed the matter, stating that the government was under no pressure and that appropriate action would be taken based on facts. He assured that the investigation would proceed without bias or 19The Karnataka government constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by DGP (Internal Security) Pronab Mohanty. Senior IPS officers M.N. Anucheth, Soumyalatha, and J.K. Dayama were appointed to the team, with a mandate to investigate all unnatural deaths, disappearances, and sexual assault cases linked to 20Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala issued a statement welcoming the formation of the SIT and expressed support for a fair and high-level investigation to establish the 21The SIT formally commenced its investigation. Both the State Women's Commission and civil society organisations welcomed the move. Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala reiterated its call for a fair, transparent, and impartial inquiry.- EndsMust Watch IN THIS STORY#Karnataka
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Business Standard
21-07-2025
- Business Standard
2006 Mumbai train blasts case: Chronology of events following HC acquittal
Following is the chronology of events in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, in which the Bombay High Court on Monday acquitted all the 12 accused. Press Trust of India Mumbai Following is the chronology of events in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, in which the Bombay High Court on Monday acquitted all the 12 accused. July 11, 2006: Seven bomb blasts in first class compartments of seven local trains on western suburban railway line between 6.23 pm and 6.29 pm. 187 persons killed and 824 injured. July 11, 2006: Seven separate FIRs lodged in different police stations. Later clubbed and investigated by the Maharashtra Anti- Terrorism Squad (ATS). July-August 2006: Thirteen persons arrested in the case by the ATS for their involvement in the case. November 30, 2006: Chargesheet filed against 30 accused, including 13 Pakistani nationals, several of whom are wanted. 2007: Trial begins. August 19, 2014: Trial ends. Special court reserves its order against 13 arrested accused. September 11, 2015: Special court convicts 12 out of the 13 accused. One accused acquitted due to lack of evidence against him. September 30, 2015: Special court imposes death penalty on five of the convicted accused. Life sentence imposed on remaining seven. October 2015: Maharashtra government files appeal in Bombay High Court seeking confirmation of death penalty imposed on five. All 12 accused persons file appeals in HC challenging their conviction and sentences. 2015-2024: Appeals placed before different benches of HC. June 2024: Ehtesham Siddiqui, one of the convicts on death row, files application in HC seeking intervention for expeditious hearing and disposal of the appeals. July 2024: HC sets up special bench of Justices Anil Kilor and Shyam Chandak to hear case. July 15, 2024: Special bench of HC starts hearing appeals on day-to-day basis. January 31, 2025: HC completes hearing appeals. Closes matter for orders. July 21, 2025: 19 years after blasts, Bombay HC acquits 12 persons, noting prosecution has utterly failed to prove case and that it is hard to believe the accused committed the crime. (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
The Independent
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Mea Culpa: It's about time
Chronology – that is, the matter of when things happened, or are going to happen – is often a nuisance to get right, and that's just the nature of the beast. Journalists are familiar with the difficulties of wrangling a complex sequence of events into an accurate and readable report, and normally they manage it quite well. There are certain trends, however, that we should definitely attempt to discourage, and one of these is the wrongful use of 'throughout'. In a fascinating article about the benefits of vitamin D, we wrote that 'omega 3 fatty acid supplementation did not have any significant effect on telomere length throughout follow-up'. I'm still not quite sure what a telomere is, but regardless, this doesn't really work: 'throughout' is an expansive term that means 'in every part of', and as such sits awkwardly beside a negative. It's a bit like saying 'I didn't like all of that programme': no one can tell if you mean that you only enjoyed some of it, or that you hated the whole thing. It feels like trying to go backwards and forwards at the same time. We said in another piece, about an actual programme: 'It was praised by critics, received 18 Emmy nominations throughout its six-season run, and is commonly held up as an example of television's golden age.' Again this was unclear, but for a slightly different reason. The word 'throughout' already suggests a profusion of something, in terms of either distribution or frequency, so if we try to use it in conjunction with a specific quantity, we create a conflict. In this case it's clear enough what we mean, but in a sentence such as 'Susan ate four puddings throughout the week', we don't know if that means she ate four every day for a week, or four in total. (Unless we know 'Susan', in which case the answer is a given. I digress.) The point is that the right word to use in each of these examples would have been 'during', which is a much more modest one and carries no notion of extent or frequency, only confirming that the thing(s) we describe took place within a certain period. The use of 'throughout' in its place can cause confusion, and it's time we through it out. Coming soon: I'm not talking about the imminent death of a national treasure: rather the launch on TV of his new documentary, which is already out in cinemas. It seems that David Attenborough is not just continuing to narrate superlative nature programmes, but is also alive and well – albeit we suggested, unintentionally, that this might not be for long. In an article last week we described the near-centenarian 'standing on a deserted beach in Dorset, white hair blowing sideways' as he reflects on 'his approaching mortality'. The usual word is 'encroaching', and there is a subtle difference: to encroach means to intrude, so the term refers to a person's growing awareness of the fact that they will not be here for ever. To talk about someone's 'approaching' mortality suggests that the end point is already in sight. Let's hope the great man has a few more years in him yet. The chips are down: We caused some bafflement in an interview with a Welsh actor this week, when we wrote: 'It goes without saying, then, that Rhys does a great Yank accent. So much so that it's a shock to hear him speak in the rolling consonants and round vowels of his birthplace when, on meeting him, he asks after a packet of crisps.' It's a strange term, 'ask after', with its curious preposition that has nothing to do with chronology. I'm not sure about its function in regional dialect, but in normal usage, it means to politely enquire about somebody's wellbeing, with perhaps just the slightest connotation that the enquirer doesn't necessarily care how they are (or didn't really ask). In other words, it's very English. In any event, no one asks after a packet of crisps in that sense, because crisps don't really come under the category of things one can reliably say are enjoying life, or a wee bit despondent, or going through an untidy divorce. The word we wanted was 'for'. There was another problem with this sentence, as some (all right, all) of you will have noticed already, which was the participle – in this instance, not so much dangling as firmly affixed to the wrong person. 'On meeting him' was replaced with 'on arriving for our interview'. Copy that: Talking of connotations, we used a peculiar word later on in the same piece when we quoted our subject describing an encounter with Anthony Hopkins: ''I remember he invited me into his trailer, and he gave me three rules to follow: be on time; know your lines; be bold, and greater gods will come to your aid,' Rhys says now in a gruff intimation of his hero.' To intimate means to hint or suggest, so I don't think we can have meant that. We changed it to 'imitation' as that seemed the most obvious solution. I know why the beige curd sings: We published a recipe for 'grilled halloumi and black honey' in which we described using charred aubergine skins to 'impart a rich, unique and smokey flavour'. I'm not entirely sure why we specify that the word 'smoky' should be spelt without the 'e' except when we are writing about the famous singer Smokey Robinson (real name William, who has been in the news himself this month, though the less said the better). But we are not alone: most publications seem to feel it makes sense to spell it differently depending on the context, and we second that emotion. Until next time.
The Hindu
24-05-2025
- Science
- The Hindu
Archaeologist Amarnath Ramakrishna refuses to revise findings on Keezhadi excavations
Archaeologist Amarnath Ramakrishna says he stands by his report on the excavations at the ancient site of Keezhadi in Sivaganga district. In his response to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which had requested that he rewrite and resubmit his report, Mr. Ramakrishna firmly defended his conclusions. 'The view expressed by you regarding further examination of the sequence is against the well-reasoned and conclusive findings of the excavation at the site,' he wrote in a letter to Hemasagar A. Naik, Director (Exploration and Excavation) at the ASI. Mr. Naik had cited suggestions made by two experts and asked Mr. Ramakrishna to revise his report by incorporating the necessary corrections, in order to proceed further. Chronology of the Keezhadi excavation According to Mr. Naik, the three chronological periods identified in the excavation require proper nomenclature or re-orientation. Additionally, the proposed time bracket for Period I (8th century BCE to 5th century BCE) requires more concrete justification. Mr. Ramakrishna, who led the Keezhadi excavation, clarified in his response that he had already accepted the suggested changes in nomenclature and had communicated them to the ASI in a letter dated April 10, 2023. 'The chronology of the Keezhadi excavation has been evaluated in accordance with standard archaeological procedures. The periodization of the site was reconstructed based on stratigraphic sequences, cultural deposits, material culture, and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) dating obtained during the excavation,' said Mr. Ramakrishna, who submitted his report in January 2023. More than two and a half years later, the ASI has now asked him to resubmit the report to make it 'more authentic.' In his reply, Mr. Ramakrishna explained that the final conclusions presented in the report were based on detailed findings and were supported by comprehensive documentation. He stated that the chronological sequence of the Keezhadi site was clearly explained in the original report. Responding to the ASI's request for layer numbers to be marked for comparative consistency analysis, he said this would be done if any such data was found to be missing. Mr. Ramakrishna also emphasised that all relevant maps, plates, and drawings had been provided in high-resolution formats, both in soft and hard copies, to the ASI at the time of submission. 'Hence, there is no chance of anything being missing. However, if anything is found to be missing, it will be corrected,' he added.
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First Post
06-05-2025
- Business
- First Post
The long road to India-UK trade deal: ETP in 2021 to FTA in 2025
The UK on Tuesday agreed a free trade agreement with India, its biggest such deal since leaving the European Union, after negotiations relaunched in February following US tariff threats. read more Britain and India announced Tuesday that they have agreed on a long-stalled free trade agreement that will slash tariffs on Scotch whisky and scores of other products. The deal comes more than three years after negotiations started and stalled under a previous British government. Britain has sought to bolster trade ties across the world since it left the EU at the start of the decade, a need that strengthened after the United States unleashed tariffs that risk weaker economic growth. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Following is the chronology of the developments that led to the conclusion of the India-UK free trade agreement. May 4, 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and (the then) UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson launched an 'Enhanced Trade Partnership' (ETP) to unleash the trade potential between the two economies. As part of the ETP, they agreed on a roadmap to negotiate a comprehensive and balanced FTA. Jan 13, 2022: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal launched the Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the United Kingdom, along with the then UK Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan in New Delhi. Both parties agreed to start the first round of negotiations on 17-28 January and hold future rounds of negotiations approximately every five weeks. Jan 2022 - Jan 2025: A total of 14 rounds of negotiations were held between officials of the two countries. March 2024: Negotiations were paused due to Indian general elections; both sides agreed to resume discussions post-election. February 2025: Goyal and UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds announced the resumption of negotiations. It was resumed after a gap of over eight months because of elections in Britain. Apr 28, 2025: Goyal visited London for the FTA talks with his UK counterpart, Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD May 2, 2025: Goyal again held discussions with Reynolds. May 6, 2025: India and the UK announced the conclusion of negotiations for FTA, along with the Double Contribution Convention pact. 'Today we have agreed a landmark deal with India – one of the fastest growing economies in the world, which will grow the economy and deliver for British people and business,' UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement. His Labour government added it is 'the biggest and most economically significant bilateral trade deal the UK has done since leaving the EU'. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the deal as 'ambitious and mutually' beneficial. The pact will help 'catalyse trade, investment, growth, job creation, and innovation in both our economies', Modi said in a post on social media platform X. His office said in a statement the deal will 'unlock new potential for the two nations to jointly develop products and services for global markets'. It added that Modi had invited Starmer to visit India at an unspecified date. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD With inputs from agencies
